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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.2mb_lg

0 km SE of Glen Elder, Kansas

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mitchell County 14 kmJewell County 32 kmOsborne County 43 kmLincoln County 50 kmSmith County 52 kmCloud County 57 kmRepublic County 67 kmOttawa County 69 kmRussell County 76 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (mb_lg)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Mitchell County, 14 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 498 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 39.4958, -98.3050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mitchell County, KS 14 km (9 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mitchell County
Jewell County, KS 32 km (20 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Jewell County
Osborne County, KS 43 km (27 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Osborne County
Lincoln County, KS 50 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Smith County, KS 52 km (32 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Smith County
Cloud County, KS 57 km (35 mi) W of here earthquakes near Cloud County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

12 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.5 4 km NNE of Jewell, Kansas
  2. 2.6 5 km WSW of Formoso, Kansas
  3. 2.9 13 km NNE of Luray, Kansas
  4. 2.7 4 km SE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  5. 2.5 1 km NNW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  6. 2.5 1 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  7. 2.1 0 km N of Glen Elder, Kansas
  8. 2.8 2 km NNE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  9. 2.9 2 km NE of Glen Elder, Kansas
  10. 2.8 0 km NW of Glen Elder, Kansas
  11. 2.7 1 km N of Glen Elder, Kansas
  12. 2.7 0 km WSW of Glen Elder, Kansas

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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